Epistolary practices: letter writing in America before telecommunications

Abbreviations and Note on Quotations

Burn This letter: Autograph Missive and Published Text

I Have Taken This opportunity of Writing You a Few Lines: A Genre as Popularly Practiced

I Cannot Write This Letter: Ralph Waldo Emerson

A Letter Always Seemed to Me Like Immortality: Emily Dickinson

I Write Now d'Outre Tombe: Henry Adams

Conclusion: Letter Writing in the Era of Telecommunications.